Like another Kevin Love, only a lot smaller: a double-double machine — points and assists, of course — who has recorded them in his first six games this season, seven consecutively if you go back to last season's finale.

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« I just hope it's not those knuckle-pushups. »

Wolves coach Rick Adelman when told Kevin Love's freakish outlet passing is due partly to the same fingertip pushups he did growing up, borrowed from former outlet-passing great Wes Unseld.